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16 March 2016

Australian-made beauty merchandise like all-lanolin lip balm are rating international distribution deals, because of billowing demand for natural cosmetics.

Lanolips, whose lanolin comes completely from Australasian sheep, can this month become obtainable on the world's biggest luxury e-tailer, Net-A-Porter. meantime the sweetness cook, based by Bondi-based beauty author Carla Oates, has had its superfood supplement preoccupied by London's Selfridges and can be obtainable in a hundred and fifty Anthropologie stores across the USA by 2017.

Emphasising their all-natural, organic ingredients, these start-ups are a part of the "wellness" market that emerged round the mid-2000s in fitness and diet, and has since unfold to the cosmetic trade.

"Lanolin was massive as a moisturiser within the Nineteen Seventies – bear in mind Oil Of Ulan? – then again they were ready to compound it a lot of cheaply, and therefore the natural product got incorrectly labelled as AN substance," says Kirsten Carriol, World Health Organization funded Lanolips from income of her beauty packaging business for four years, before going fulltime in 2013.

"People became a lot of interested in what they are golf stroke on their bodies. they are a lot of probably to suppose what lanolin has perpetually in deep trouble sheepskin. It holds two hundred per cent of its weight in water."

Lanolips retails around fourfold the value of thought lip balms supported petrolatums, but it's still a comparatively low-margin whole.